Accumulation of tetracycline resistance genes in aquatic biofilms due to periodic waste loadings from swine lagoons

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7643-7650

  Zhang, Wen ^a   Sturm, Belinda S M ^a   Knapp, Charles W ^b,c   Graham, David W ^a,b  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; GENE LEVELS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOADING CONDITION; MESOCOSMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTITATIVE DATA; RECEIVING WATERS; RESISTANCE GENES; RRNA GENES; SWINE LAGOONS; SWINE WASTE; WASTE LOADINGS; WATER COLUMNS;

BIOFILMS; GENES; LOADING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RNA; SURFACE WATERS;

BIOFILTERS;

OXYTETRACYCLINE; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOFILM; GENE EXPRESSION; MANURE; PIG; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; LAGOON; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; RNA GENE; TET GENE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; LIGHT; OXYTETRACYCLINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 70449808038     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9014508     Document Type: Article

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